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If the announcement had been made almost anywhere else, it would probably have been dismissed as one more false alarm. But the word came from the Pasteur Institute in Paris, fons et origo of epochal research into man's relationship with the microbes: Institute scientists had devised a vaccine...
Because they have had no opportunity to isolate or culture a large enough supply of the new viruses, doctors have yet to develop a vaccine against the London flu. But they are advising immunization using the Hong Kong vaccine, on the theory that limited protection is better than none at...
Influenza is no longer the mass murderer it was decades ago, when an epidemic could kill thousands. Doctors theorize that people have developed sufficient natural immunity to reduce the virus's impact; medicine is usually able to cope with serious complications in the rare cases in which they occur...
The reason for this shortage is not scientific but social. American hospitals have ample facilities for acquiring, storing and administering blood. What they lack is willing contributors of the raw material. According to officials of the 1,330-member American Association of Blood Banks, who met last week in Washington...
Died. Max Theiler, 73, South African-born virologist who as a researcher for the Rockefeller Foundation won the 1951 Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine for his success in developing a vaccine against yellow fever; of lung cancer; in New Haven, Conn. -